Regardless of scenario, home or car, how am I to call 911? I don't own, and will not own, a cellphone. In order for me to call 911 myself, I would have to enter my home while it's being burglarized in order to gain access to my landline...., or call 911 and be a good witness (same senario, under castle doctrine, but your home instead of a car)
I believe only on Tx can you protect property with deadly force and there you can protect your neighbors property also but you do have the right to detain someone for police in most states. always check your local laws yourself
If you want legal advice...best to get it from an attorney who knows the laws, as opposed to opinions from faceless forum folks.
Without answering to the legality - you'd have been foolish to engage someone for breaking into your (empty of people) car. No lives were at stake. Your best option would have been to send your wife for the cop in the store right away, while being a good witness and getting a description of the guy, his truck, his license plate, etc. NEVER risk your life for "stuff." (And keep your most expensive "stuff" insured, for this very reason.)
If you had elected to engage him anyway, and he had pulled a knife, you would be justified in defending yourself with your firearm, shooting until the threat was stopped.
I so disagree with you. You have no idea if once he is done what his next act will be. It could be violence against him and his wife and/or others. We have gone to war with oppressive regimes over "STUFF"
Once a criminal knows they will not be engaged they will return and keep on coming back. I do not consider it foolish for my wife to always feel safe know that I will protect her. If you have never been robbed (even while you were out of your home when the burglars hit) You would not understand that most people relate it to being violated sexually. They do not feel safe & secure in their own home.
My wife and I had parked at a local store to do some shopping at night. When we came out of the store and back to the car there was someone in my car and he was going through it and putting our valuables on the seat to steal. I quickly pulled him out of the car and began yelling at him.
I saw that he had a duffel bag in the bed of the truck. I don't know why but when I realized that he was going to get away, I grabbed the duffel bag. He threw it in park, got out and came after me with a knife. I yelled to my wife to run back into the store and get the cop that was fortunately at the door. Meanwhile I was keeping the duffel bag between me and that knife as he was trying to get me with it. After what seemed like an hour (Probably less than 2 minutes), the cop showed up and told him to drop the knife, which he promtly did and was arrested.
Personally, as Mr Gain said, IMO, stuff that in my case is insured, is not worth my tangling with anyone who may be better at this "gun thing" than me and I am not replaceable--this goes for my car and my home when I am not directly in contact with the BG. In my home, for example, I lock our bedroom door at night--if someone breaks into my home in a different area of house, I will activate car alarm, call 911, and stay in my bedroom--if the BG decides to defeat my locked door, he has now called into play imminent danger and pure Castle Doctrine, IMO, and it will then be the last thing he ever does, but the insured stuff in the other rooms--it is not worth my life. I should preface the "home comments" by saying it is just my wife and I and no childen or others living in other parts of the house--that is whole other story.
Instead of jumping to conclusions and misrepresenting what I was talking about. I was not responding to the OP Iwas responding directly to the quote and captured and to the fact that it is just "STUFF". As well I was responding to the fact he said "No lives were at stake." Because there is no way to determine that the criminal might not end up attacking someone else. He even goes on to say "If you had elected to engage him anyway, and he had pulled a knife, you would be justified in defending yourself with your firearm, shooting until the threat was stopped."
And I still disagree with the "It's just stuff" argument. Once criminals see they are not going to get away with crimes thye will not try it again. One of the reasons we have gone from Break and Enter to violent home invasions is because of the "It's just stuff" argument. Criminals became more emblazoned once the learned they were being unimpossed.
Soo...what was in the duffle bag??
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